Word: english
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SHAKESPEARE WALLAH. U.S. Director James Ivory takes a wry, wistful look at fading British influence in India while ostensibly concerned with a love triangle that disrupts an English Shakespearean troupe on tour...
...marries Wanda, daughter of Arturo Toscanini. Father-and sonin-law perform together. Their concerts are sellouts, their records collectors' items. Money, fame, esteem-everything comes quickly to Horowitz-except English. At the White House, when he is presented to Mrs. Hoover, he bows and says, "I am delightful...
...secretary to London civil defense chief in World War II, known in the U.S. as the rhetorician who slew the dragon of verbosity, first with his bestselling plea for simple language, Plain Words (1954), and last year for his revision of the classic Fowler's Modern English Usage, which preserves its original charm; of cancer; in Midhurst, Sussex...
...makes Technicolor seem a necessity. But the 4-H sex appeal of this genial western centers principally upon a white-faced bull named Vindicator. A hornless Hereford, he arrives in America well before the turn of the century, chaperoned by Maureen and plucky Juliet Mills as a well-bred English mother and daughter with some eccentric ideas about animal husbandry. Their hefty British bull is just the thing, they swear, to beef up the herds of lean longhorn cattle then prevalent in the West...
Much of the performance's humor, unfortunately, was due to the strange and mawkish Auden-Kallman English translation; many serious moments are transformed into unintentional burlesque...